marveltrumpshate:

★ THE 2018 MTH AUCTION IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED ★

The auction is officially over! Phew. We’re exhausted and in need of some delicious shawarma.

We hope you all managed to win the auctions that you really wanted and that this week has been as thrilling and enjoyable for you as it has been for us.

Firstly, we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported us this week: creators, bidders, signal boosters, our design team, and everyone who cheered us on. We’re immensely touched by the kindness and generosity you all showed in contributing to the auction and giving encouragement to creators and bidders alike.

An automatic email has been sent out to all of the winning bidders. As there are so many of you, it may take a couple of hours for everyone to receive this email. Creators will also be emailed about the next steps of the donation process within the next 48 hours, and we’ll be posting further instructions on Tumblr shortly.

To cap off our event, we want to say a few words about how Marvel Trumps Hate was founded. Our fellow mod nostalgicatsea came up with the idea of a Marvel fandom charity auction because of everything that has happened over the past year—and especially the past few months—not only in the U.S. under the Trump administration but globally as well. She knew others in the Marvel community felt the same way as she did—upset and angry over what was going on, and over the helplessness that sometimes washed over them with every news update. As another policy put people, especially those marginalized and at risk, in harm’s way. As influential figures failed to face consequences for immoral actions due to the privilege they held. As a catastrophic disaster destroyed countless lives.

And she knew that everyone—not just her friends and not just the fandoms she was in—would want to do something about it, to turn that outrage and anger into a positive force. Just as Fury did in The Avengers, she wanted “to bring together a group of remarkable people” and “see if they could become something more…if they could work together…to fight the battles [they couldn’t fight alone].” Not just one fandom. Not just two. All of them. The entire Marvel fandom as a unified front, with as many Marvel universes, fandoms, ships, and characters represented as possible.

The team assembled over the summer and—inspired by previous fandom charity auctions such as Fandom Trumps Hate, Stony Trumps Hate, and Fandom Loves Puerto Rico—decided to firmly adhere to our policy of being inclusive, so that as many people could participate as possible to fight hate, bigotry, and violence with love, acceptance, and generosity. We were confident that others would believe in our mission statement and our goal to raise money for organizations working to protect civil rights, marginalized and oppressed communities, and the environment. After all, we’re all here because we love superheroes and are inspired by them. We talk about them, we make works about them, and we can follow their example and do some good too.

We were right. We are, and forever will be, grateful to each and every one of you who took a stand and got involved. You proved what the father of our fellow fic writer Kamala Khan once said: “There are always people who rush in to help. And…they are blessed.“

Thank you again for making the auction as wonderful as it has been. We can’t begin to express how much it meant to us to have the fandom we love so much come together to make a positive impact, and we’re looking forward to being blessed with many beautiful fanworks over the coming year!